Tozan’s Five Seasons by Means of Bicycle
Tozan’s Five Ranks, or Seasons, are poems describing the flow of practice through absolute and relative truth. Kyogen Carlson talked...
Sep 18, 2025


A Taste of Cultivating the Way Sesshin 2025
Sesshin truly begins as soon as we decide to attend. Something is stirred. The subtle effects of sesshin extend through the formal...
Aug 29, 2025


Koan Summer 9: Where Does the Path Begin?
Seido walks with us into the last case in the Mumonkan, Qianfang’s One Way . What does it mean to trust Mumon’s words, “before you have...
Aug 14, 2025


Koan Summer 8: When the Four Elements Scatter
A small child squats to look at an insect, her hair a nimbus backlit by the morning sun. Old friends reminisce, “Do you remember when. ....
Aug 7, 2025


Koan Summer 7: Counting Stars
Lie on your back. Gaze into the inky blackness and count the stars, all septillion of them. Or count weeds on the side of the highway,...
Jul 31, 2025
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